Have you ever stopped to think about where your porn comes from, or if porn actors receive fair pay? These aren’t generally pressing questions for the average porn consumer as they scroll through their search results for a 5-minute clip. But as with all parts of consumer culture, it’s important for us to think about how we can support higher and more ethical production standards.Euphemia Russell is a pleasure and sexuality educator in Melbourne. In this episode, we spoke to her about the state of the Australian adult entertainment industry, and how we can help to support artistic integrity and fairer production standards.In this episode, we also discuss:

• The state of Australian sex education
• The cultural, political and institutional barriers to running a sex education business
• The state of the porn industry
• Does ethical porn exist?
• Why sex work is work
• The politics of Porn Hub and its heteronormative cis-gendered bias
• One cup, two girls
• What really goes on inside the porn industry?
• Do we need more realistic porn? Is there a place for fantasy in our intimate lives?
• Porn screenings and safe spaces for understanding public and private perceptions of porn
• Why we NEED more public spaces to talk about sex safely
• Row Murray on Episode 23 
• Kids are watching porn from as young as 8-years-old
• When is the time educate our kids about safe, consensual sex?
• Porn tropes and their place in rape culture
• The demise of high quality porn in the 90s
• Why you absolutely HAVE to pay for porn
• Crash Pad Series
• The problem with ‘feminist' porn and ‘ethical’ porn
• SWERFs and social exclusion
• Why do so many straight women love lesbian porn?
• How you we be better consumers? Vote with your dollars!
• Visit Pinklabel.tv for loads of high-quality, ethically produced porn
• Porn actor Jizz Lee
• Catalyst Con
• Why is Australia so conservative?
• Victorian legal frameworks and sex work 
• #gymtw
• Sex Worker’s Outreach Program 
• Estelle Lucas on Episode 17 
• Why rape fantasies are common - but are they 'normal'?
• Esther Perel and the concept of a secret garden
• How to cultivate healthy fantasies
• Lube is the BEST SEX TOY
• The difference between oil, silicone and water-based lubes
• Passionfruit in Richmond, Melbourne

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